Systems and Methods for Fulfilling Orders
AssigneeLightspeed Automation LLC
InventorsJason Leach, Randy Smith
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Abstract
Various embodiments for facilitating the fulfillment of orders are disclosed. One embodiment is a method implemented in at least one computing device for fulfilling an order for an item in a storage facility. The method comprises obtaining an order for the item from a third party order provider, converting the order to a predetermined format for fulfillment, generating guidance information based on the converted order and at least one attribute of the item, and transmitting the guidance information to a wireless computing device for fulfillment of the order by a picker.
Claims20
A method implemented in at least one computing device for fulfilling an order for an item in a storage facility, comprising:
- obtaining an order for the item from a third party order provider;
- converting the order to a predetermined format for fulfillment;
- generating guidance information based on the converted order and at least one attribute of the item;
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- transmitting the guidance information to a wireless computing device for fulfillment of the order by a picker.
A system for fulfilling an order for an item in a storage facility, comprising:
- a third party interface configured to obtain an order for the item from a third party order provider;
- an item retriever configured to obtain data corresponding to the item from a database, wherein the item retriever is further configured to convert the order to a predetermined format for fulfillment according to the data retrieved from the database, and generate guidance information based on the converted order and at least one attribute of the item;
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- a content server configured to transmit the guidance information to a wireless computing device for fulfillment of the order by a picker.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a mobile computing device, comprising:
- code that transmits a current location of the mobile computing device to an order fulfillment server;
- code that obtains guidance information from the order fulfillment server for picking a plurality of units of an item, wherein the guidance information is generated based on a plurality of orders for the item from at least one third party order provider;
- code that encodes for display a user interface based on the guidance information;
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- code that transmits an acknowledgement upon retrieving the item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.